Search Result for "sissiness":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1. the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man);
- Example: "the students associated science with masculinity and arts with effeminacy"
- Example: "Spartans accused Athenians of effeminateness"
- Example: "he was shocked by the softness of the atmosphere surrounding the young prince, arising from the superfluity of the femininity that guided him"
[syn: effeminacy, effeminateness, sissiness, softness, womanishness, unmanliness]
